Nintendo has announced the first title in the Golden Sun franchise in six years: Golden Sun DS.

It's little more than a trailer at this point, but Golden Sun fans can rest easy - the DS will be getting the next installment of the popular Game Boy Advance series. No word on whether your save file from Golden Sun 2 will transfer to the new platform, but we'll hopefully get some answers later this week.

this is the greatest news that i have heard in quite some time so please Nintendo I'm begging you, can you please for the love of god not fuck this up? if this next game is a worthy successor to the franchise i will personally go out and purchase a Nintendo DS light...and maybe a mod chip cartridge...

Y'know...looking back at my previous comment of simply saying "nice," I'm excited at the prospect of a new Golden Sun, but then I remembered what system they're releasing it on: The Nintendo DS. Inevitably, they're going to throw in some asinine, useless, moronic touch-screen gimmick for shits and giggles. Now if it was maybe for alchemy and you use the stylus for crushing ingredients in a mortar and pestle, that might not be bad. Actually...lemme write that down, I might want to hold on to that idea. But chances are they're going to incorporate it into combat by making you wildly slice away at the touch screen to swing your sword or some shit.

Plus, if I know Nintendo, the entire time the game's going on you're not once going to see the main character talk in cutscenes. Think about it, in all of Golden Sun, all the dialogue from your party came from Garet, Mia and Ivan, hell even Jenna spoke more than Isaac, and then in The Lost Age you never heard Felix talk and all the exposition came from Sheba, Piers (SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIS NAME?!) and and Jenna. Hell, once Isaac's party joined Felix's, he finally took the cork out of his mouth and spouted more dialogue than Felix.

One other leery look I have against GSDS (Golden Sun DS) is they're going to turn it more into a typical JRPG. What does that mean? Horrible cutscene-to-action ratio, characters are androgynous 12-year-olds in pajamas who don't have any personalities and all the bad guys' motivations are "because I feel like it," among other complaints. Oh, and all the villages are transformed into sterotypical japanese towns in JRPGs.

I...I've been waiting so long for this day to come...and now that it's here...I can't think of anything to say, other than, Nintendo and Camelot, thank you from the bottom of my gamer heart, I promise I shall abstain from making any more jokes about Nintendo....for a while.Really though, this is the best news to come out of what has already been a cracking E3, now the only problem will be the agonizing waiting.

The trailer was well done for a DS title. And the fact that I get to use Ramses, Atatlanta and Eclipse all as summons again is great. I don't care how the game is, I will get it just to finally feel some closure. And I still like the silent protagonist over the crappy dialogue speaker

Earnest Cavalli:Fuck yes! The Golden Sun games are the best unknown RPG games in history.

I just hope Nintendo doesn't fuck everything up by making it "casual" or adding stupid DSi-centric camera gimmicks.

Really, I think it is one of the few games that could actually make proper use of the touch screen; I mean, half the time in the old games, you were trying to get the magical, disembodied hand to be where you wanted it to be, right?

Earnest Cavalli:Fuck yes! The Golden Sun games are the best unknown RPG games in history.

I just hope Nintendo doesn't fuck everything up by making it "casual" or adding stupid DSi-centric camera gimmicks.

I really don't get this...

I didn't like Golden Sun AT ALL... and I love ALL RPG's...

What am I missing here...

I really wanted to like it but I found it so slow, cliche'd and poorly plotted that I couldn't take it.

Maybe consider that a lot of us had Golden Sun as a relativly new RPG at the time of it's release and what cliches it did. It did well.

Also for gamers who are usually spoiled on a game that treats every god damn country as a european kingdom if you get OFF the continent your on here we had a game that not only showed you a world. But one very closed to our own yet steeped in myth and fantasy.

And at the time Psyenergy was a big use on the field as off the field. One of the few things the touch screen could make REALLY fucking innovative.

In short Golden Sun was never the greatest game but the sum of all it's elements made it a pretty damn good one.

Did you play through both games or just Golden Sun 1? I say track down a rom and play both and see if after a few years your idea on it has changed.

The Great JT:character talk in cutscenes. Think about it, in all of Golden Sun, all the dialogue from your party came from Garet, Mia and Ivan, hell even Jenna spoke more than Isaac, and then in The Lost Age you never heard Felix talk and all the exposition came from Sheba, Piers (SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIS NAME?!) and and Jenna. Hell, once Isaac's party joined Felix's, he finally took the cork out of his mouth and spouted more dialogue than Felix.

One other leery look I have against GSDS (Golden Sun DS) is they're going to turn it more into a typical JRPG. What does that mean? Horrible cutscene-to-action ratio, characters are androgynous 12-year-olds in pajamas who don't have any personalities and all the bad guys' motivations are "because I feel like it," among other complaints. Oh, and all the villages are transformed into sterotypical japanese towns in JRPGs.

The Great JT:Y'know...looking back at my previous comment of simply saying "nice," I'm excited at the prospect of a new Golden Sun, but then I remembered what system they're releasing it on: The Nintendo DS. Inevitably, they're going to throw in some asinine, useless, moronic touch-screen gimmick for shits and giggles. Now if it was maybe for alchemy and you use the stylus for crushing ingredients in a mortar and pestle, that might not be bad. Actually...lemme write that down, I might want to hold on to that idea. But chances are they're going to incorporate it into combat by making you wildly slice away at the touch screen to swing your sword or some shit.

Plus, if I know Nintendo, the entire time the game's going on you're not once going to see the main character talk in cutscenes. Think about it, in all of Golden Sun, all the dialogue from your party came from Garet, Mia and Ivan, hell even Jenna spoke more than Isaac, and then in The Lost Age you never heard Felix talk and all the exposition came from Sheba, Piers (SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIS NAME?!) and and Jenna. Hell, once Isaac's party joined Felix's, he finally took the cork out of his mouth and spouted more dialogue than Felix.

One other leery look I have against GSDS (Golden Sun DS) is they're going to turn it more into a typical JRPG. What does that mean? Horrible cutscene-to-action ratio, characters are androgynous 12-year-olds in pajamas who don't have any personalities and all the bad guys' motivations are "because I feel like it," among other complaints. Oh, and all the villages are transformed into sterotypical japanese towns in JRPGs.

The Great JT:character talk in cutscenes. Think about it, in all of Golden Sun, all the dialogue from your party came from Garet, Mia and Ivan, hell even Jenna spoke more than Isaac, and then in The Lost Age you never heard Felix talk and all the exposition came from Sheba, Piers (SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIS NAME?!) and and Jenna. Hell, once Isaac's party joined Felix's, he finally took the cork out of his mouth and spouted more dialogue than Felix.

One other leery look I have against GSDS (Golden Sun DS) is they're going to turn it more into a typical JRPG. What does that mean? Horrible cutscene-to-action ratio, characters are androgynous 12-year-olds in pajamas who don't have any personalities and all the bad guys' motivations are "because I feel like it," among other complaints. Oh, and all the villages are transformed into sterotypical japanese towns in JRPGs.